I’ve just returned home from a visit to my parent’s house.\u00a0 While we were there, my entire family congregated to celebrate my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary.\u00a0 That’s right, 50 years!<\/p>\n
The importance of this anniversary is not lost on me.\u00a0 In a time when marriages are thrown away like used tissues, having parents that are still together after 50 years is becoming more and more unusual.\u00a0 My parents have experienced many of the things that now tear couples apart.\u00a0 Financial strain, the loss of a child, moving away from everyone you have ever known to start a new job, the ebb and flow of friends and family.\u00a0 They have also weathered the inevitable storms that arise when raising children.\u00a0 Especially the 3 headstrong, highly opinionated, sassy children like me and my brothers!\u00a0 Through it all, my parents have remained true to each other in every way.<\/p>\n
We weren’t able to be together on their exact anniversary because my parents were on an Alaskan cruise as their gift to each other.\u00a0 As we were all around the table last night, my brothers mentioned how giddy and childlike my parents acted in the weeks before their trip.\u00a0 In talking to them, they sounded like little kids excited about a week at the beach.\u00a0 For me and my brothers, that was the best gift of all.\u00a0 Not only are they still together, but they also still enjoy being<\/em> together.<\/p>\n I can only hope that at our 50th anniversary, Robert and I are still happy just being together.\u00a0 12 down, only 38 to go!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve just returned home from a visit to my parent’s house.\u00a0 While we were there, my entire family congregated to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-anniversary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}